Lou Reed The Proposition song lyrics

You can't have the flower without the root

you can't have the fire without the soot

Even a stripper needs her red tasseled suit

and we were meant to be

In every war the North needs the south

and everyone knows all assholes have a mouth

Without mystery what would writers talk about

and we were meant to be

An apple needs pits the way melons need seed

your foot needs your arm and your arm needs your knee

And one of these days I know you will need me

we were meant to be, ooohhh, we were meant to be

You're mother's an ogre your father's a scamp

you won't see my parents honored on any stamp

But just like a bulb screws into a lamp

we were meant to be

The way the AIDS needs a vaccine, somewhere a vaccine needs

AIDS, The way a victim needs life, a life needs to be saved

And out of all of this will come a better way

we were meant to be

So you can go to Europe, Los Angeles or Mars

you can stand on a building throwing cinder blocks on cars

You can practice deep voodoo, but like me you'll see

we were meant to be, we were meant to be

We were meant to be

We were meant to be

We were meant to be

We were meant to be

We were meant to be

We were meant to be

We were meant to be

We were meant to be